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At 12/4/06 06:35 PM, OMGIROXATTEHINTRANET wrote: NO. Just do what everyone else said and make the username and the display name. Besides, what if someone decides they don't like their name anymore? Come on, Tom, don't be lazy. Your programmers can easily do the two names, and keep the username freedom.

Besides, it's fun to change it for about five minutes and then change back.
Generates lots of lulz.

At 11/6/06 08:26 PM, TomFulp wrote:

For example, I'm hoping lots of people will check out tomfulp.newgrounds.com once it comes into existence. :)

tomfulp.newgrounds.com? And what's to come in that new site, TomFulp? Can you tell us? Thank you.

I think it should stay as a redirect to your new page until some one else claims the name. The only restriction would be if I change my name from xpnet to xpnet2 .. xpnet will still be locked until I make my 3rd change so the last name I changed to stays locked just in case I decided I wanted to go back to my old name.

If you need some help with the programming end I have plenty of experence and work close enough.

Come on. you should have been careful choosing your username. if you dont like it, TOO BAD

User IDs in the URL are better in my opinion, since they are limitless (because names have limits, and numbers don't), but it also makes a hard time for people to type out a certain user's webpage URL.

In the meanwhile, Usernames in the URL aren't good for a site that receives a lot of incoming users. It might give people an easy time typing an user's URL, but there's a certain limit to the number of users that this system can hold. (Note: Limit depends on the maximum number of characters allowed per username.)

It's up to you, Tom. You could make a poll or something like that, or sort out the problem yourselves. I hope you could sail through this dilemma safely.

I like my name :3